Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 80

I like the boy very well; but the mother is good for nothing."

Who acts: I, mother · What happens: like, be · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 like	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 like	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 good	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mother	det
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 good	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 good	cop
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 like	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 nothing	case
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 good	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	I	the boy				well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	is	present	the mother					for nothing; good property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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